<p class="abstract"><strong>Background: </strong>CSOM is commonly encountered in the clinical practice as a cause of conductive hearing loss. Preoperative evaluation becomes mandatory for proper management. Ossiculoplasty usually done loss due to ossicular chain abnormality CSOM. The aim outcome ossiculoplasty with and without an intact malleus.</p><p class="abstract"...

<p class="abstract" style="display: inline !important;"><strong>Background:</strong> The main purpose of surgery in cases chronic otitis media is to eradicate the infection and restore middle ear hearing function. Both intact tympanic membrane ossicular chain are essential for restoration these cases. world material science has provided otologists with array biomaterials recon...

Abstract Background This study was designed to evaluate the effect of mastoid cavity obliteration with bone chips and reconstruction canal wall tragal cartilage after down tympanomastoidectomy ossiculoplasty in same session. Sixty-three patients cholesteatoma underwent technique mentioned above; were followed for 1 year postoperative. Results No problems, median preoperative air gap 32.86 ± 6.2...

MATERIALS and METHODS: This study was conducted as a retrospective review of charts of patients who underwent revision tympanoplasty with composite cartilage-perichondrium island graft at our clinic. Patients who underwent radical or modified radical mastoidectomy for the treatment of cholesteatoma and who had stapes fixation were excluded. All grafts were placed using over-under technique. Oss...

INTRODUCTION The use of ossicular graft material in ossicular chain reconstruction has significantly improved hearing results hearing after tympanoplasty and tympanomastoid surgery for chronic otitis media. Today, otologists have a wide array of tools from which to choose, but may find it difficult to know which middle ear implant works best. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study of 80 pa...